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NOUN
Akmal Ridhwan Bin LipohHafizul Bin JalpahEmilia Binti AliFaizurah Binti Wasli
A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings. Nouns can be a subject or an object of a verb, can be modified by an adjective and can take an article or determiner.
For example:
TablePencilThe dogA white houseNouns also denote abstract and intangible concepts.
For example:
birthhappinessevolutiontechnology, etc.
The names of specific things, people, or places.
Example: Jhon, France. They usually begin with a capital letter.
Peter lives in Spain.Many people
dread Monday mornings.
General names such as person, mansion, and book. They can be either concrete or abstract.
Example : People: man, woman, girl, baby, son, dughther,
policeman, teacher Animals: cat, dog, fish, ant, snake Things: bear, book, boat, table, chair, phone Places: bank, school, city, building, shop Ideas: love, hate, idea, pride
Refer to things which you can touched, smelled, seen, felt, or tasted.
Example : Steak, table, dog, Maria, salt, and wool.
Can I pet your dog? Please pass the salt. Your sweater is made of fine wool.
More ethereal, theoretical concepts use abstract nouns to refer to them.
Example : freedom, love, power, and redemption are all examples of abstract nouns.
They hate us for our freedom. All you need is love. We must fight thepower.
Refer to things which can be counted (can be singular or plural)
There is a bike in that garage.In this example, the word bike is singular as it refers to one bike that is presently residing in a particular garage.
However, bike can also occur in the plural form. There are six broken bikes in that garage.In
this example, the noun bikes refers to more than one bike as it is being modified by the numeral six.
Refer to some groups of countable nouns, substances, feelings and types of activity (can only be singular)
That garage is full of clutter.This sentence makes grammatical sense. However, the following example does not.
That garage is full of clutters.Mass nouns can not take plural forms, and therefore a sentence containing the word clutters is ungrammatical.
By adding “s” Examples:
Bananas shoes ducks
By adding “es” to nouns that end in “s”, “ss”, “x”, “ch”, “sh” and “o”.
Examples:
Buses classes boxes watches bushes
By adding “ies” to nouns ending in “y”
Examples: Exceptions:
Baby Babies Valley valleys
lady ladies Key keys
Boy boys
By adding “ves” to nouns ending in “f”
Examples: Exceptions:
Calf calves Dwarf dwarfs
Shelf shelves Hoof hoofs
Loaf loaves Roof roofs
Complete change Examples:
Child children
Ox oxen
Foot feet
Tooth teeth
Goose geese
Man men
Mouse mice
Without change Examples:
Deer deer
Sheep sheep
Clothing clothing
Furniture furniture